<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For instance, when I wrote <i>Lattice Theory: Foundation</i>, I borrowed material<div>from like 50 of my articles.</div><div><br></div><div>Since my hard disks are 250 GB and 2TB, 260 times 7KB is still negligible.</div><div><br></div><div>I dot see an alternative. As lattice.sty evolves, old papers cannot use new variants.</div><div><br></div><div>GG</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2011-10-01, at 2:05 PM, Alan Munn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 1, 2011, at 1:12 PM, George Gratzer wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The way I work, I have the current document in a folder in Dropbox.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This folder contains all the source files, illustrations, and a current copy of my style file:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lattice.sty.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This is the folder I archive when I am done.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This has the following advantages:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1. Whichever computer I use, it has the current version of all my files.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2. Say, in 10 years time, I want to use parts of this article, so first I typeset it. Since lattice.sty<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is in the archived folder, no problem.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In 10 years time, lattice.sty will evolve. But since for the old papers I always have the lattice.sty<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">from that time, I am OK.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have 260 versions of lattice sty stored in my computer…<br></blockquote><br>I'm not sure this should be listed under "Advantages" :-)<br><br>Just out of curiosity, how often are you likely to need to recompile an old file (rather than just use its preexisting pdf?)<br><br>Alan<br><br>-- <br>Alan Munn<br><a href="mailto:amunn@gmx.com">amunn@gmx.com</a><br><br><br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq<br>List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/<br>List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/<br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/<br>List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>